Alexander Falconer Murison (3 March 1847 – 8 June 1934)[1] was a Scottish academic who was professor of Roman law and jurisprudence at University College, London and at the University of Oxford. He was a prolific writer for newspapers and journals in a wide variety of subjects with comparatively few publications in his specialism of Roman Law.[1][2]
Murison was born at New Deer, Aberdeenshire, Scotland on 3 March 1847. He was born to a crofting family and looked after cattle as a boy. He won a bursary to Aberdeen Grammar School where he excelled and won a scholarship to the University of Aberdeen. After achieving a first class honours M.A. degree in classics, he returned to his old school and was an English Master there from 1869 to 1876. He married Elizabeth Logan in 1870 and they had two children, Alexander Logan (1871–1948) and Sir James William Murison (1872–1945), who became Chief Justice of the Straits Settlements.[7]
1912–24: Dean of the Faculty of Laws and member of the senate of the University of London. Also, in 1915, he became deputy reader in Roman Law at Oxford and then deputy professor of civil law in 1916.
First Work in English: Grammar and Composition Taught by a Comparative Study of Equivalent Forms, Oxford University, 1875
The Globe Readers, Books One to Five, London: Macmillan & Co., 1881–84.
"A short history of Roman law" in W.A. Hunter, A Systematic and Historical Exposition of Roman Law in the Order of a Code, 2nd edition (London, 1885) 1–121 [repr. in 3rd ed. 1897; 4th ed. 1903]; usually referred to as "The External History of Roman Law"
"Lex Dei," Classical Review 27 (1913) 274–277 [review of M. Hyamson, Mosicarum et Romanarum Legum Collatio (London, 1913)]
W.A. Hunter (revised and enlarged by A.F. Murison), Introduction to Roman Law, 8th edition (London, 1921)
Horace rendered in English verse (London, 1931)
The Bucolics & Georgics of Vergil rendered in English hexameters (London, 1932)
The Odes of Pindar rendered in English verse (London, 1933)
The Iliad of Homer rendered in English hexameters, vol.1: Books I-XII (London, 1933)
^ abMurison Papers, UCL Special Collections Archive (100 volumes of manuscript papers, translations, working papers and notes of Alexander Falconer Murison), archived from the original on 23 December 2012
Murison, Alexander Falconer; Murison, Alexander Logan; Murison, James William (1935), Memoirs of 88 years (1847–1934) : being the autobiography of Alexander Falconer Murison, Aberdeen University Press, OCLC614426864
